Standard agreed up front
Before production ends we lock the AQL level, the defect classification, and the specific failure modes that matter for your product.
04 / Quality Guard & Consolidation
The sample was perfect. The container was not.
It is the oldest failure in China sourcing, and it happens after you have already paid. Quality Guard inspects the goods before they leave the factory floor — and our Shenzhen warehouse ships everything you bought as one consignment, at cost-price freight.
Quality Guard
Nothing leaves the factory until it passes
An AQL pre-shipment inspection carried out by our own people at the factory, ending in a Green Pass report you can act on.
Inspection at the factory
Our inspector pulls a random sample from finished goods on site — packed cartons, not a tray prepared for the visit.
Green Pass report
Photo evidence, measurements, a full defect log, and a single unambiguous verdict: release, rework, or hold.
You decide, we enforce
If it fails, we hold the shipment and run the rework negotiation with the factory before any balance payment moves.
The Green Pass report
What lands in your inbox
- Order and inspection reference, factory identity, and inspection date
- Sample size, AQL level, and the agreed defect classification
- Photo evidence of the goods, packaging, labelling, and carton marks
- Full defect log split into critical, major, and minor
- Functional and dimensional check results against your approved sample
- A single verdict — release, rework, or hold — with the reasoning behind it
Want to see the standard we inspect against? The factory verification checklist below is the same framework, written so you can run it yourself.
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Consolidation Hub
Five suppliers. One pallet. One declaration.
Buying from multiple factories means multiple pickups, multiple declarations, multiple broker fees, and multiple chances for one late supplier to strand the rest of your order.
One shipment instead of five
Goods from every supplier arrive at our Shenzhen warehouse, get merged, repacked, and palletised into a single outbound consignment.
One customs declaration
A unified export declaration instead of a separate filing, broker fee, and paperwork chain for each factory.
Around 30% less freight spend
Typical saving for buyers moving from supplier-by-supplier shipping to consolidated freight. Actual saving depends on volume, lane, and mode.
Freight at cost, shown to you
We charge a fixed operations fee for the warehouse work and pass the carrier rate through unmarked. You see the real number.
What it costs
A fixed fee for our work. Nothing on top of your freight.
This is the part of the industry where margin usually hides. We publish the structure instead.
Pre-shipment inspection
Per inspection day
Quoted on product complexity, sample size, and factory location. Confirmed in writing before we go.
Warehouse operations
Flat fee
Receiving, inspection support, storage, repacking, palletising, and labelling. Fixed, not a percentage of your cargo value.
Freight and customs
At cost
Carrier and broker charges passed through exactly as invoiced to us. Zero markup, and you can verify the rate yourself.
The 30% figure is an average across consolidated buyers moving from supplier-by-supplier shipping. We quote your actual lane before you commit, and if consolidation would not save you money on a particular order we will say so.
What buyers say
Two shipments that did not go out
“Inspection caught a substituted battery cell on the second run. The factory swore it was equivalent. It was not. We would have shipped 8,000 units of a recall.”
“Consolidating five suppliers into one shipment cut our freight bill by roughly a third, and I stopped paying five separate customs brokers to do the same job.”
Inspect before you pay the balance.
Tell us what is in production and where it is being made. We will quote the inspection and, if you are buying from more than one factory, the consolidated freight alongside it.